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We can find it in shells, flowers, pinecones and snails... it's needed in sport, construction, space exploration and more... and it pairs very nicely with a sweet, flaky dessert.

Squiz Kids Shortcuts give you and your primary-aged kids the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the big news stories.

LINKS:

TedEd on Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5vHXsUvUw

Jaden Chong recites Pi to 1,800 places: https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/melbourne-sevenyearold-memory-boy-becomes-sensation-remembering-pi/caf43ef6-dc39-486b-89eb-a79bfba64641

How to count seed spirals on a sunflower: https://momath.org/home/fibonacci-numbers-of-sunflower-seed-spirals/

The Fibonacci sequence spiral: https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html

More Fibonacci:

https://www.naturphilosophie.co.uk/fibonaccis-golden-spiral-relationship-maths-nature/

https://mathimages.swarthmore.edu/index.php/Fibonacci_Numbers

NASA's Starshade: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1015/flower-power-nasa-reveals-spring-starshade-animation/

Maths in art: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/math-is-muse-for-these-artists